official alibaba (also notable apps - eg missing children )*taobao university up to 100 million alumni in China - received training on how to taobao; as of 2017 established 1311 taobao e-commerce villages*Damo Academy 12 started with 15 billion dollar investment by jack ma's as intercity top notch research on humanising livelihood advantages of major components of Industrial Rev 4 such as AI, blockchain, internet of things .. related IR4 at world economic forum: san francisco hub; wef summer china summoit*gateway17 ma's 3000 citizens and leaders one day masterclass in ecommerce*ma's personal mentoring (aka efounders) of first 100 entrepreneur chorts chosen with unctad and developing nations that have asked jack ma to help+Aliresearch 1 tsinghua alumni network of Ying Lowrey's SME curriculum aligned to AliBaba modelPodcast Ant Finance

jack ma- when i first studied (e)commerce in states i was surprised to find that each market was dominated by 2 or 3 manufacturers- i decided to design china ecommerce to maxise small enterprise suppliers and local jobs.ying lowrey is tsinghua's professor of small enterprises- her book alibaba way is eyeopening:

example founder of shanghai conglomerate fosun actively celebrates CEN, and partners in one of Jack Ma's universities at hangzhou and supports new york greatest yoth-led arts movement singforhope.com

co-sponsor: wise@beijing: Zhejiang Zhipu Foundation Founded by the six founding members of Alibaba Group, Zhejiang Zhipu Foundation supports rural education and promotes healthy and sustainable relationship between human and the society, as well as between human and the nature.

The Panel is expected to raise awareness about the transformative impact of digital technologies across society and the economy, and contribute to the broader public debate on how to ensure a safe and inclusive digital future for all, taking into account relevant human rights norms.

Shangjin Wei, Professor of Finance and Economics, Professor of International Affairs, and N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy, Columbia University

Wei Xiong, Trumbull-Adams Professor of Finance, Princeton University

Chenggang Xu, Quoin Professor in Economic Development, University of Hong Kong, Professor of Economics, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

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the wicked problem of missing curricula youth most need- as jack says this is a huge problem; correspondenmce case posted may 2018: moreover we have atended many world bank youth summits where missing curricula have been pitched and everyone cheered the value but getiing each different nation to newly cetrtify suc new learning is a fools erand-here part of a specific example- do you know a missing peer to peer curricula that needs similar linking in

I am staying at brac in bangaldesh my favorite girls education network in the world as well as largest ngo in wortld and partnership networkwe will see dean of james grant school of public health at brac university tomorrow- do you still have any message you wanted passed to brac about the peer to peer adolescent health program you and lancet have been building? we are mainly working with brac's overall education director as specified directly by sir fazle abed when i met him in qatar 2017 - sir fazle kindly gave a lot of his time to remembrance parties of my dad norman macrae at the japan embassy in dhaka in 2012more generally brac and jack ma started fin tech partnership earlier this month with brac's BkashSMS in bangladesh but for s asia (the whole 2 billion of china's neigbors particularly poorest girls on china south and south westren borders), for sustainabiliuty generation to scale and gain from these 2 superstars we believe partnering relations will broaden into looking at skills education ; we will be trying to form team both on bangladesh and china side to monitor this however fast or slow it goesmostofa has been working on bangladesh side for very long time- he also worked with modjtabia sadria then at aga khan in london while they were in london at time muhammad yunus was at his social business peak ; i believe modjtabia is now back in iran after some years with paul at monash? ( i didnt get to pauls grn summit in jordan 2006; i believe sadria did; i note that jack ma just made donation to queen of jordans education fund)

we are trying to invite any university student to form a club to see where is the nexus between what students most want to study practically and training that sir fazle and jack ma could mooc or otherwise maximally distribute to benefit livelihoods- togther the names of jack ma and sir fazle can be a top 100 web and top 1 web for open action learning- in branding terms this is easy as long as we quickly get all best friends of ma and abed signed up at one launch summit blessed by china and on the road to ma's sponsorship of huge expo at tokyo olympics

after 8 visits to beijing i am reasonably confident that we can get as much additional support as we want from tsinghua university in beijing (over there they know thgere are half a billion undre 30s and that china cant afford any youth left legless by mismatch between jobs and what colleges like examining-- ) additionally tsinghua with aiib is heavily into belt road pitches to india this year so education can be 2 for 1 so to speak

as long as both jack ma and sir fazle have approved a subject area as being one that needs development in this type 2 pee to peer or apprentice mode i believe we can help scale missing curricula

as you think you know i first met pauil komesdroff in 2004- i love everything he was trying to create volunteer expereinces abroad around monash and medics and cultural/arts translators;I hope we can find the right way to linkin monash as this idea gains momentum

coming soon at wechatuni : difficult questions like what happens when ai or robotic intelligence is inside your phone?

Friday, October 26, 2018

The rapid rise of digital economy – the application of internet-based technologies to the production and trade of goods and services – has reshaped how we consume, produce and trade. It has also transformed global investments, created new markets and even provided new avenues for tackling persistent development problems.

Guest question from fllor - coordinatir of digiotal cooperation report for guterres led by Ma and Gates - see Amandeep Singh Gill

While ubiquitous for developed countries, digital economy development remains a challenge for most developing and least developed countries. Some 3.8 billion people, according to ITU, have never been online – and they are concentrated in Asia-Pacific and Africa. This digital divide, born out of a lack of investment, capacity or structural problems, makes the journey to digitalization a complex one.

This session, organized in cooperation with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), will gather investors of the digital economy to discuss best practices in investing for digital economy development. Speakers -ranging from infrastructure providers, financial backers, and digital firms – will discuss the current and future state of investment in the digital economy, their role and interconnectedness, along with innovative practices and policies that have facilitated them in channeling investments to help close the digital divide. Insights from this session will also feed into the work of United Nations Secretary General’s High-level Panel of Digital Cooperation.

Issues for the debate:- What kind of investments are needed for digital economy development?- What are the challenges to mobilizing investments towards digital economy development?- What kind of innovative practices or policies help facilitate investment for digital economy development?

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Jack Ma Sets Up Entrepreneur Training Institute in Indonesia

During the 2018 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group on Oct. 13, Jack Ma, Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group, stated that he plans to establish a “Jack Ma Entrepreneur Institute” to train thousands of tech entrepreneurs. He currently serves as an adviser to the Indonesian government steering committee for e-commerce.

According to Jack Ma, the institute is expected to cultivate 10,000 tech entrepreneurs from both public and private sectors in the upcoming decade. It will focus on educating developers and engineers in cloud computing, which is the area Indonesia struggles with the most.

Indonesia has always been a strategic market for Alibaba. Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing department of Alibaba, launched a data center in Indonesia in March. Alibaba will continue to invest in various areas of e-commerce, cloud computing, logistics and infrastructure in Indonesia, assisting local enterprises in tech development and in elevating their level of digitalization.

“I believe that investing in people is investing for the future. Cultivating talent is one of the most significant things the Alibaba ecosystem can do. My hope is that emerging markets will benefit from the individuals that are nurtured by this new 10×1000 Tech for Inclusion program and thus be able to embrace a brighter future through the digital economy,” said Ma. “Only when people improve, when people’s minds change, when people’s skills improve, only then can we enter the digital period”.

Ever since 2015, Alibaba has made huge investments in personnel training in developing countries and has set up multiple training programs at home and abroad. In August this year, Alibaba set up the Africa Netpreneur Prize to encourage young African entrepreneurs to start their own businesses. On Dec. 4 2017, Jack Ma proposed his B200 plan in Geneva, promising to help empower 1,000 entrepreneurs in developing countries over the next five years.

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

UNCTAD World Investment Forum 2018

this summit is convened by the kenyan who is one of the UN's main scouts for what you called alibaba global business school

I would like to know if ying would let some of us meet her and a few students at tsinghua before xmas 2018 to discuss elements of the attached

firts the most important knowledge any student with a future can study in 2018-2019 is the march digital cooperation report of jack ma and melinda gates for guterres on digital cooperation- it has been promised by march 2019 which is in time for the main summit season starting with the 100 national leaders xi jinping hosts in beijing april 2019 and including asian inftrastructure investment bank june 2019

-this report will be the best insight of this academic year that youth can publicly get on what jack will be doing from sepetember as he starts his first year back on livelihood education and the NGO world of tech and human partnerships which climaxes with community for all expos at the olympics which he is sponsoring and which becomes biannual with beijing 2022 and paris 2024

second i am fed up with summits that separate the main protagonists in sustainability rather than have the underclass train the upperclass in a way that all schools can then replicate

3rd i believe there is already a ring of south and eastern universities who care more about what their graduates entrepreneurially do in the field than get certified on in a bit of paper- jack's university van lead that; we could even start blockchain-certification of the new entrepreneur students - a different sort of venture capital hub if you like with jack steering where the credits mobilise and scale

4tj jack talks about big data small but where is a amp of each country's best big data small stuff that can be open sourced so his coding alumni can show what can be done- we know india has great data with nilekani- maybe brac wil never have the data but can show how to do manual concepts that then need parallel data testing

5th we may as well ask financiers to answer the question - have they banned most of finance from sdg innovation

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

last month in DC i heard that a blockchain law from Liechtenstein is now best for the world- i kid you not in these days when it takes 9 hours of live tv for us congress not to find out who's true in a 15 years old he said she said a small nation ( previously L's main export was one ski slope for tourism) thats interested can write up a concept ;law and whisper that all decent blockchain technologists like it and take it to the eu and the eu's top financiers can go into a tizzy because they cant write smart new laws like this in a hundred years let alone the 3 months it took Liech -and oh yes if DC doesnt like Liechtestein having the most valuable financial law in the world it will be pretty difficult to arrange sanctions to block this ski slope placeif you go near the end of the csis briefing you wil see me asking a different question from will liechenstein change financial laws for ever- more modestly i wondered : is there an example of a supply chain blockchain that is actually doing good for poorest farmers - i think the experts said not really because ibm watson does that but for big clients- however there was someone for usaid there who convenes internal summits on blockchain and he sort of promised to report back if he finds a different answerthe timeline to june 2019 now gets very interesting because asian infranstructure investment banks 80 nations brainstorming developmement banking that the g7 (bretton wood of what development can fund) has never offered arrives for its annual summit in luxembourg june 2019 continuing a relay from Mumbai 2018 and korea 2017 -- and sir danny alexander who leads the tech side of this has every professor from the lse who knows anything at his call - in patticular note lord stern has now co-created a G20 eminent financial expert panel- while its first announcement 18 months ago in korea sounded as if it would wake up argentinian g20 I am now expecting that to be a dummy dress rehearsal also one has to ask is blockchain part of the remit opf the world economic forum hubs for industrial revolution 4- while wef also started in a swiss ski slope this hubs appear in beijing tokyo and san francsico - they seem to be the second intercity academy of humanising techs next 5 years - jack ma started the game nearly 3 years ago :15 billion $ research linking a DAMO academy wherever tech wizards yes you can do bog data small or 5G AI for allmeanwhile 3 months earlier melinda gates and jack ma will deliver their report on digital cooperation to the UN head Guterres and in time for it to be shared with 100 national leaders each debating one or more of the top 13 belt road maps under the wise moderation of xi jinping in aprilbeijing is an ingteresting place- i had bought my toclket to attend a worldwide bloickchain summit in beijing to find the governmentg had canceleed it as hgaving too many speculatoirs at it- i am pretty suere the 5 mlost relevant china thimktannks are on the blockchain caseas may be toronto where guru do ntapscott says that anygthing you hoped the web would open space but didnt can now be blockchained- fortunatley the only leader of th g7 china wholly trusts is canada's trudeau as he helped make china's g20 the only really human g20 that has so far happened; of course those who folow tyhe inviosible mans hand will hope that jack ma's influence so wisely mediating civil society groups at hangzhou g20 will come tpo to,lyo g20 and his co-sponsorship of the tokyo olympicsi am preety sure that cool blockchain networks are emerging in the emirates -= it connects with their yout desperately finding a sector their to lead (expect the uae 2020 Expos to contribute big clues to that) when oil is gone as the main energy source. This may need to be sooner than you think if climate latest exponential risks are publicly understoodwe keep on searching = the catch 22 is if blockchain never delivers sustaonability solutions then maybe we are all for the dodo anyway but then a lot of pioneers in this field are playing on that idea but speculating the guts out of trust in any coin or other blockcian token

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In micro world's community value markets, Entrepreneurial Revolution's mobilisation of 1000 times more "tech" than 1946, now joyfully gravitates around Jack Ma. Note how he offers every youth a map to connect and question how can value chains of markets maximise sme and youth livelihoods? In 50 years of ER searches, started at time of moonlanding, our jobs-rich education searches show girl empoowerment's other servant leader is Sir Fazle Abed BRAC.May 2018 news that Ma is taking 20% share in Brac's fintech-for-girls revolution www.bkash.com is best news economicswebs.com has ever witnessed.

may018 jack clarifies his solutions to preventing half of youth from being unemployable:education value chain is world's biggest challenge

Ecommerce in ChinaJack Ma started concept debates of maximising web for livelihoods in 1994- first trip to usa, how can china use web;by 2003 e-malls and alipay financial tools start to be ..together in scale mobilising from 2008by 2013 alibaba announces 25 business units

all monitored by aliresearch -typical futures debate:joint report future retail march 2017gateway2017.com part of ma's 3000 person teach in on alibaba as platform for inventing new smes in market value chain as well as be ever smarter consumersTaobao university responsible for maximising vilage (farmers) markets inclusion in ecommerce GAIIB.com.........................................

End poverty in bangladesh and celebrating courage of 1 billion south asian girls "hold up half the sky"Can BRAC University alumni join in entrepreneur training ma is doing with UNCTAD- 35 asian, 28 ? africans trained at alibaba HQ?

Other markets Ma is exploringjoy markets from 2020 olympics ma wants to spend most time on such markets as health, greencommunities for allOur blog DAMOcity looks at how jack is investing 15 billion dollars on a worldwide academy exploring how to humanise technology's next revolutionary foci.

Ma did lots of prep for Hangzhou G20 in 2016 see hiw ewtp and other innovations at worldcitizen.tv

IS TSINGHUA EVEN MORE CRITICAL THAN WISE -another look at 2012 debate with sir fazle and japan embassy on the missing microeducationsummit

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mature students like mostofa and amy are much more connected at detailed local levels than my old frame but the big picture of changing education and new development banking is moving so fast that this is my current attempt to keep up . if its vaguely correct it means that what each of us does and processes in interviews in next 9 weeks may seem small but will impact big movements (the way only connected youth and new partnerships between world changing brands can do) ; because india goes into election 2019, sino-south asia's most critical 12 months is june 2018 to may 2019 including aiib mumbai june sco qingdao june brics sept joburg UN sept , world bank indonesia oct 2018, paris march 2019 , belt road 100 nation summit beijing may 2019- if anyone can help us keep track we invite co-blog EconomistDiary.com; this next academic year is also the one that prepares Japans G20 in 2019, followed by Jack Ma Olympics 2020

economistwebs.com alibabauni.com

Alibaba’s Jack Ma is famous as Big-Data-Small visionary, Leader of China’s ecommerce platforms and digital finance leapfrog models including taobao (village enterprises). Papa Ma as he is known to youth is one of 3 BAT leaders valued for moral sentiments and sustainability goals of China’s internet investment banking. NB timing in 2008 was crucial: coming of universal smart phones, the west's subprime losses of confidence, the year that Xi Jinping was told to prepare China's new world view valuing half a billion youth in china and 1.5 billion neighbouring youth (most in S Asia)

START-UP DECADE From 2008: Big Three Baidu-Alibaba-TenCent emerged to lead ecosystems for 2017 as china's year of 5 million startups. This links 10 satellite supercity-hubs (eg Chengdu is designated gateway city to all south asia; in new york we know team responsible for 2000 youth exchange every 4 months at city's main university). The mother sun of all syupercities youth empowerment is Beijing Tsijnghua and surrounding entrepreneurial suburb – vaut le voyage www expo space to benchmark China’s rejuvenmation dream.

Ma’s Leapfrog Educational Agenda (committed to as part 3 of his life work from 2020):

“half of youth to be unemployable unless we take education beyond 250 year old classroom examintaion model – UN sept 2016;

“EDUCATION IS BIGGEST CHALLENGE”: Ma’s love of Fintech & Edutech (including eduAI) now shows that 250 years of Classroom examination culture has increasingly trapped youth - computer intelligence is replacing such old knowledge value chained round big gets bigger: this expoentially accelerating crisis in education is at a tipping point – can we urgently celebrate mobile youith’s trabsfornatiuonal skills such as: action learning of group creativity, coding, community and language litteracies . 10 times more affordable peer to peer modlaities, loveq competneces youth must value bottom-up to be the sustainability generaltion- based on valedictory

we have a book that people may want to copy that tsinghuas best students turned into the most exciting social business case ever seen outside bangladesh - its author is Ying Lowrey who amy and yuxuan met 3 months after being honored to attend sir fazle's 80th birthday

here's why Ying Lowrey is very special in my expereence

Testimony to Jack Ma by Tsingua’s Ms Ying Lowrey

Lowrey became the editor Alibaba Way- Unleashing grassroots entrepreneurship : building world’s most innovative Internet Company

My career path involved a few leaps from my first job in china’s vlilages as a barefoot doctor, to senior economist at US Small Business Adinistraion, returning 2010 to Beijing to develop small enterprsie curriculum at Tsinghua under guidance of my mentor Columbia University Nobel Economist Mass Flourishing’s Edmund Phelps.

On return to Beijing, instead of preparing to retire I found one more career leap: I was told small enterprise had no academic precedence in China but was being pratically pioneered by Jack Ma. I reached out to the research team of Alibaba, they sent me their 2012 research paper “small is beuatiful : Development Report on E-commerce. and offered to partner my students in developing the partnerships-case study of the AliBaba Way. This became a book which 10 of my students did practical work on with editing by myself and reserachers at Alibaba Research Institute- wriiten 2013 published 2014. In parallel,at Tsingua from 2013 I have offered Tsinghua’s new course: THE ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE AGE OF BIG DATA –more www.alibabauni.com

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-note in 2013 china smes went past usa smes in direct exports with 40 billion dollars worth ; by 2018 china is projected to be at 160 billion dollars usa at 80 billion; your country sne's at what

we havent begun to see value of elearning made all the more gamechanging by way that real schooling systems have destroyed connection with livelihoods

hsitorically big data intelligences has rewarded big organsiations- from now on if a government wants to be at epicentre of sustsinable nation it beter had lead teh ways in apps that analyses big data for advantage of smes

60: superports eg hk, taiwan,then singapore emerge- by 74 china diaspora third wealthiest ready for inwardinvesting mainland ...let it be: time to unite world in celebrating asia pacific century72 BRAC starts to link in partners in what Keynes would value as greatest economic miracle of pre-digital age to 95 -Bangladesh born word's poorest 100 million person nation becomes the greatest partner in innovation races to end poverty; worldrecordhealthtable.doc, 87 KB81 Grameen in 5th year of testing circles microfranchise- 16 decison launch in 1983 evolves the greatest womens social network

. USA.............................60s moon race starts but whats after impact for jobs in society67 intel born in 68 on moores law; satellites uses ?tv superstars start getting very costly72 Economist future history to 2012summarises quarter of century of non-sustainable fixes dominated by US macroeconomists- system maps of transformation needed if 2010s is not to collapse global financial system